The Coming Contrary Warrior Podcast re Psyche, Science, History The World Crisis Part I

I have talked about this for a long time. I have said I was going to start a podcast and basically this was in response to the prompting of several people in my car as I drove them home. A 16 year old girl both of whose parents were psychologists. I don’t remember exactly whatContinue reading “The Coming Contrary Warrior Podcast re Psyche, Science, History The World Crisis Part I”

Esoteric Christianity-What It is and the Books to Read. Part One.

Hello. The picture above is Gurdjieff, the man who brought this teaching to the West at the time of the Russian Revolution. His most famous student, P.D. Ouspensky, chronicled his experience as G’s student and wrote what is considered the seminal, and the very best book on the doctrine, Gurdjieff taught. The book is called,Continue reading “Esoteric Christianity-What It is and the Books to Read. Part One.”

Part 1: Book Recommendations on Freud Help for Someone Starting Out in this Area. Jung to Come Part 2

I get to talk to quite a few young people as a town car driver. Many are interested in psychology, but they don’t know where to begin. So, I am writing this to provide an introduction, a very relevant group of books I read years ago that impressed me. My exploration into psychology began withContinue reading “Part 1: Book Recommendations on Freud Help for Someone Starting Out in this Area. Jung to Come Part 2”

Part I. Back to the Prostate. PSA at 2.03. We Get to Declare “Victory” of Sorts

Ah! Yes! The good news. First a general review of the medical establishment’s relationship with its patients to be followed by a detailed look at just how my PSA fell to 2.03 from over 5, with supplements and one prescription drug (finasteride). My story as story, as meaning, is both simple and complex. It isContinue reading “Part I. Back to the Prostate. PSA at 2.03. We Get to Declare “Victory” of Sorts”

Breaking Down The Left’s Paranoia and Why They See Us as “anti-Democratic” II

I want to begin by talking about the Self and what I learned from Dr Adriana Mazzarella, the Jungian analyst who was my ESL student and the author of a Jungian interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. The symbiotic group is always based on egocentrism, on the neurotic override of the Self. The neurotic override ofContinue reading “Breaking Down The Left’s Paranoia and Why They See Us as “anti-Democratic” II”

The Left’s Paranoia re “We, the People” & Why They See Us as “anti-Democratic”

I am going to be writing more along this vein of thought. for me, it’s the “Mother Load” regarding the modern world and its problems. It’s been my good luck/bad luck to have to deal with modern world’s lack of development of reason and, especially, conscience. Meanwhile, we begin to get at all that byContinue reading “The Left’s Paranoia re “We, the People” & Why They See Us as “anti-Democratic””

Richard Noll’s Intro in The Jung Cult

This will be a quick run-through of Noll’s introduction in his book, The Jung Cult, a book which purports to demonstrate that Jung’s followers are members of a cult, and that we do not understand just how much Jung was a product of his times and not as original as all that. Noll will attemptContinue reading “Richard Noll’s Intro in The Jung Cult”

Noll’s The Jung Cult and the Modern World’s Spiritual Crisis

I’ve been away for a while from posting anything here. Various reasons, not all of which I can go into right now. One reason, probably, the most important was that the books I have been reading are long and need a lot of intellectual and psychological “digestion”, as it were. Limeys tells the story ofContinue reading “Noll’s The Jung Cult and the Modern World’s Spiritual Crisis”

“Intermezzo 2”: My Favorite Supplements for the Brain

Ah, yes! The supplements for the brain. Some of the most useful and convincing regarding the value of supplements. After the supplements, I will talk a bit about Alzheimer’s Disease and how supplements help slow its onset. Choline. In Intermezzo I, I talked about the value of DMAE, a precursor of choline and a surfactantContinue reading ““Intermezzo 2”: My Favorite Supplements for the Brain”